We were out from a little after 6:00 PM last night until 10:10 AM this morning! Very unusual. Have always avoided buying a generator as when power goes out its usually a couple hours then back on...even during the 2010(?) ice storm. At about 8 this morning I was thinking how unprepared we were...though I did find all our flashlights
One car was in street, storm came up so quickly never got it into driveway...next door neighbor usually parks in street but put his in his driveway...branch took out sunroof and shark-tail antenna. Bummer. Just saw this afternoon, rear neighbor probably got his upper-in-line Toyota totaled by a birch branch coming down from about 50 feet..cleaved roof, hood and lost windshield. Son's neighbor had tree come down into my son's driveway, but had tree company there at 7:00 this morning to remove it...big oil-pan-eating hole left in his driveway...neighbor's insurance won't pay for ANYTHING, said it was an act-of-God. F*&Ck#rs!
It was really like a micro-burst, lasted about 10-15 minutes here. Never even had a hurricane through with wind like this, been here 42 years...